The problem was triggered by the fix for 7024749, which moved
IME messages handling from awt_Component to awt_Frame. Due
to this change, the WM_IME_SETCONTEXT never reaches the applet's
component, and candidate window position is never adjusted.
Suggested fix reverts a part of the fix for 7024749: messages
WM_IME_SETCONTEXT and WM_IME_NOTIFY are handled in
awt_Component again.
To prevent the crash described in 7024749, I suggest to check
whether the proxy is enabled before routing messages to it
(see awt_Component.cpp, line 4090).
Fix review: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2014-April/007420.html

2014-04-02

is it jdk8 affected? or just 7u?

2013-09-03

On 09.07.2013 0:47, Naoto Sato wrote:
> Just tried some 7u's to find out which release started to regress. Turned out that the issue started to show from 7u6. Not sure exactly which fix caused this regression, but I am inclined to guess that some AWT/Swing's change caused this.
>
> As to the severity of the issue, I think it is relatively high from the functional point, but wondering why the issue has not been reported till now. So I don't think this is a showstopper for 7u40, IMO.
>
> Naoto